Comments on: SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for March 2014 /2014/04/02/serospectives-this-month-in-tech-for-march-2014/ A podcast and interactive blog on the accessible digital lifestyle, produced by Serotek, the Accessibility Anywhere people Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Russ Kiehne /2014/04/02/serospectives-this-month-in-tech-for-march-2014/comment-page-1/#comment-33817 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:29:33 +0000 /?p=3967#comment-33817 The Blaze by HIMS does sound like an interesting daisy player. For $695.00, I
don’t think many people will be able to afford it. Here are my comments on
what I know about it vs my Ipad mini.

The ipad mini has dual-channel 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi.
The blaze has 2.4 GHZ 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi.
The Ipad mini has Bluetooth 4.0.
The Blaze has bluetooth 3.0
Both the Ipad mini and Blaze have two speakers.

The Blaze has no telephone style keybad. This means you won’t be able to
enter a search string to search for books to download or internet radio stations.

With the following apps, I can do everything the Blaze does and more minus
the ocr.

Bard mobile: I can read nls books on it. Books can be directly
downloaded to the ipad mini.

Audible: I can read books from audible. Books can be directly
downloaded to the ipad mini.

Kindle: I can read Kindle books from Amazon.

Learning Ally: I can read books from Learning Ally. I can directly download
books to my Ipad mini.

Boice dream reader: I can read books from bookshare, unprotected epub. Supported File Formats
PDF, EPUB (DRM free), DAISY 3.0 text-based eBooks, DAISY 2.02 audiobooks,
Zipped MP3 files, such as LibriVox, Plain Text, Rich Text Format (RTF),
Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, HTML,
What’s nice about voice dream reader, you can download books from both bookshare
and Project Gutenberg directly to the ipad mini. Voice dream reader is
supplied with Acapela Heather. You have the optionof using Neospeech or Ivona.
Personally, I like Neospeech better than Acapela. I haven’t tried Ivona as
of yet.

LibriVox audio books pro: I can stream or download books from
LibriVox or a large selection of old time radio shows. The thing I like
about this app, it will resume playback when streaming content.

Downcast: I can download podcasts directly to the ipad mini. I
can subscribe and unsubscribe to podcasts on the Ipad mini.

Tune in radio pro: TuneIn lets you listen to and record the world’s radio with
sports, news, talk and music streaming from every continent. Enjoy 100,000
live radio stations and 2 million podcasts, concerts or shows on your iPhone, iPad and
iPod. Record your favorite stream.

ooTunes: Radio – Recording and Alarm Clock! INFINITE Tunes, Talk, Sports, and
Entertainment Radio. over 36,000 web radio stations.

My Ipad mini is my most used device!

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